The Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium is held in honor of Professor Albert
L. Tester, who, at the time of his death in 1974, was senior professor of zoology
at the University of Hawaii. The faculty and students of the ...

The common, endemic New Caledonian skink Caledoniscincus
austrocaledonicus is reported for the first time from the far north of the territory,
specifically from lie Surprise in the D'Entrecasteaux Reefs. The herpetofauna ...

A new moray of the genus Gymnothorax is illustrated and
described from 69 individuals taken from oceanic islands and atolls in the
subtropical South Pacific Ocean. It differs from all other Gymnothorax except
the Atlantic ...

After the accidental introduction of the Brown Tree Snake, Boiga
irregularis, to the island of Guam after World War II, the snake became
exceedingly numerous, and most of Guam's native vertebrates either became
endangered ...

Puu Mahana has previously been interpreted to be a littoral cone,
formed at a secondary rootless vent where lava flowed from land into the ocean,
but a number of lines of evidence point to it being a remnant of a Surtseyan ...

Soils of the Laloanea Farm (40 ha), in the uplands of northwestern
Upolu, Western Samoa, were studied by an examination of nine pedons
composing two toposequences, one running S-N and the other W-E across
extensive ...

Fabriciola berkeleyi Banse is the only species of Fabriciola reported
from the California coast. It was described by Hartman as Fabricia berkeleyi in
her Atlas of Sedentariate Polychaetous Annelids from California.. ...

Tree snails of the family Partulidae have declined on Guam since
World War II. One species, indigenous to the western Pacific, Partula radiolata,
is still locally common along stream courses in southern areas of the ...